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Incentive-sensitization model of addiction. Schematic model of how ‘wanting’ to take drugs may grow over time independently of ‘liking’ for drug pleasure as an individual becomes an addict. The transition from casual drug use to compulsive addiction is posited to be owing to drug-induced sensitization of mesocorticolimbic mechanisms of incentive salience. Modified from [42].
